This is my homage to the slasher horror flicks of the eighties with masked killers. I could go for a good ol' slasher flick again, but they seem to have fallen out of fashion (admittedly, I haven't seen the new Halloween, and am open to any recommendations if anyone has seen a decent one lately…)

(Knees weak arms are heavy, Mom's spaghetti)
This was pretty cool. I'm glad the twist was hidden until the end and unpredictable. I expected the killer would get clay instead of being clay so that's cool.
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I'm really glad you enjoyed it and that the twist was unpredictable! I was attempting to distract you so you thought that Clay was going to be another victim, so it's good to know that part was successful. Not sure about your reference, though (knees weak arms are heavy)?

Clay is the only character with an actual name that's still alive, so the killer kind of had to be him (it would be cheap if the reveal was just somebody that hadn't yet been introduced), but I was happy with how the sleep paralysis played out as a red herring, since it allows the reveal to follow the same pattern as the other murders and mislead readers into thinking Clay is just going to be another victim.